Terminal Addict

Here we go again...
After a couple of false starts, here I am trying to start my weblog yet again. For a technology early adopter (I bought Motorola's first Linux PDA phone so early they didn't even have time to debug it), I have been extremely slow in getting on the weblog bandwagon. Couldn't be just because I hate the word "blog", though I do think it sounds very ugly. Anyway, here goes... My name is Venky and I work in the Solaris sustaining team at Sun in Bangalore, India. Have been working on some form of UNIX or Linux for well over 10 years now, starting from my early SCO UNIX days through Slackware and Red Hat to my present day passions -- Solaris and Gentoo Linux. Severely addicted to scripting languages (Korn shell, Perl, Ruby), I have a sneaking suspicion I spend more time writing scripts than actually using them. Until very recently, my webserver was a reasonably small shell script. I am also addicted to the terminal window (hence the name of this weblog) and pretty much every application I use (editor, mail client, web browser) runs within one. Should be enough for the first post. I have no idea what I'll be writing about in this weblog of mine. Stay tuned, just in case I figure out!